Dell Tells Wall Street Its Growth
Will Outpace Computer Industry

By

Evan Ramstad Staff Reporter of The Wall Street Journal

Updated Sept. 5, 1997 12:01 a.m. ET

AUSTIN, Texas -- Dell Computer Corp. executives told Wall Street analysts that they expect the company to continue growing faster than the personal-computer industry as a whole and said they are taking steps to make the company more efficient.

The executives apparently were hoping to assure investors that the direct seller of computers can still improve even though it has grown at a rate four times faster than the industry -- and its...